Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-04-02
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
ACONIPARISON,

ACOMPARISON.
 --.rs,u, ot an investment is based
 ,ts advantages compared with . ,n its class or line, and the yield .s,. eho,e the interest upon the -, embraced in the investment
 3t5s cost o; production, is the gauge -,as rsl worth.
 T.. s,s. not require a shrewd fiuan- nor 8 profound mathematician to ,'' .,..-ste tbe business principle In- lin s choice between a tenement ' ..,,, two thousand dollars that re -.~srue of two hundred dollars
 and one costing four thousand ,r.,. .hst yields the same sum.
 ,-7rf.v ve know men who call them
 ,- sl-svl and sagacious men of ,.-..s. men who have been bred in
 .-.7Eare of principal and fed upon
 -...f-r generations. that have com
 .7s their financial reputations
 ,--.r. the most expensive and no
 .;s method ot making their -als productive.
 r..-- fake one simple illustration of a..ri-s s.sss to opportunity: In South -- C,r'--nia. land that IS planted to susra is held at a price ranging ,-..- --. bs1i-el to five hundred dol ,,-s-s- s,-e. Similar lands in the Salt P.-arvs.ley in Arizcna cEu he purchas- .s..a price ranging from fifty to one rrrarel and fifty dola-s per acre, while 7, -he santa Cruz like lands range ,--n five to fifty dollars per acre, the f...s- covering the choicest lands i:ri- gstsi by never failing flowing water.
 For simplicity Of demonstration we will say that the annual production of hay fp sssh ,rss.i.v is the sane, (aI- though ,hs .-.-s-. lands produce one crtro crops per year more than those of California;. sud that the farmer in < 1tLern Calf rnis receives eight dol lars per :5n for his hay; the Salt River farmer ten dollars, and the Santa Cruz farmer sixteen dollsrs; each produces four crops per year with a yield of one sad one-haH tons Der acre per crop, or siI tons per acre annually.
 On oIe hundred acres ID California, the yield would represent 600 tons at Ss Der ton, OF S4SoO. Interest on the cost c,l00 acres at the average cash price, s}1 per acre. S30,OOO, 8. : per cent per snngm, S2l00; cost Of farming say S2O Der acre, S2oO0-a total expense of S4IOO sai profit of S700
 r. Sals River valley, 600 tons at SlO 5rtoa, S6000; interest on cost of land, ID acres at Rn average of SlO0, Sl0,OO0 si : Der cent per annum, s700; cost of farming. say SIS per acre, S1, 500 "a total erpeuss of $500 and a profit of $500. Oa the Santa Cruz, GOO tons ct SIG ger ton: S9,G00; interest on cost of land. DO acres at the average cost of S27.50, S--Jl at : per cent per Ennum, Sl9250; cost of farming, say SI5 per acre. I.5OO -4 total expense Of l.692.50, and a -,c1it of S7.907 50
 To recapitulste, the California invest --nt pays profit above seven per cent interest. of S7OO; the Salt River invest -zut, S35O0; end the Santa Cruz in 7sz.nsnt. S7.9O7.5O.
 Ils cost Of farm labor is cheaper in A7.z1aa and particularly so ID Tucson, and ;-e price of hay IS never so low ss Es -.Ts estimated above, while the y.sli -s greater, all of which applies ex- c.ls,7 .y 5o gugmeating the let profits. A,4-1. tE5 market here IS always firm a-3 l-s limited area O; lands adapted 6 sac- culture forbiis over production. -Le price O. these lands must therefore u.a-5 --.y enhance in value, and in comp si-1a with the choicest alfalfa s-Is st Southern California which are 1.l a-S5 J per acre, our lands should o-.-s over SlgJJ per acre.
 W..1 slch plain and indisputable facts il ..yo- oi Arizons lands, there js no .-a-su Elg evgry acre along Iis pro -lc..vs valleys should not De brought r-l.- cultivation, for any crop will pro il.- .- laz ratio to the one We have c-sel for illustration,
 A-- let these sag acious finRnciers will s-l. tleir eyes and go to California to P: t-s a.ys=sJ price for the least pro -l.iye pr pey;y.